Activities
July 2013 - Advances in Latent Variables Conference, Brescia, Italy
January 2012 - Seminar, Department of Statistical Science, UCL
September 2012 - Workshop on Algebraic Statistics, IST Austria
September 2012 - IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Santander
August 2012 - Linyi University Summer School, Shandong, China
8th May 2012 - Seminar, Department of Statistics, University of Florence
7th May 2012 - Seminar, Department of Finance, Economics and Statistics, University of Perugia
April 2012 - Workshop on Graphical Models, Fields Institute, Toronto
March 2012 - Seminar, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
January 2012 - Statistics Seminar, University of Bristol
December 2011 - Computing for Graphical Models, RSS, London
Papers
| 2013 | a | Marginal log-linear parameters for graphical Markov models (with Thomas Richardson), accepted, JRSS-B |
| 2012 | a | Graphical methods for inequality constraints in marginalized DAGs 22nd Workshop on Machine Learning and Signal Processing |
| b | Parameter and Structure Learning in Nested Markov Models (with Ilya Shpitser, Thomas Richardson and James Robins) UAI-12, Causal Structure Learning Workshop. |
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| 2011 | a | Two algorithms for fitting constrained marginal models (with Antonio Forcina), submitted |
| 2010 | a | Maximum likelihood fitting of acyclic directed mixed graphs to binary data (with Thomas Richardson), UAI-10 |
| b | Transparent parametrizations of models for potential outcomes
(with Thomas Richardson and James Robins), Valencia 9, pp 569-610 |
Other Work
(not to be reproduced without appropriate citation / permission)
| 2009 | Discussion of Generalized Additive Models with Implicit Variable Selection by Likelihood-Based Boosting, G. Tutz and H. Binder |
| 2009 | Maximum Likelihood Estimates for Binary Random Variables on Trees via Phylogenetic Ideals |
| 2007 | Rates of Convergence of Non-Parametric Maximum Likelihood Estimators via Entropy Methods |
Talks
(not to be reproduced without appropriate citation / permission)
Constraints on Marginalised DAGs - Statistics Seminar, University of Florence, May 2012
Marginal log-linear parameters, graphical models and model selection - Statistics Seminar, University of Bristol, January 2012
Variation Independent Parametrizations (with video) - CSI One Day Meeting, September 2011
Parametrizations of Discrete Graphical Models - UW Final Examination, August 2011
Smoothness of Binary Conditional Independence Models - WOGAS3, April 2011
Probabilistic Causal Models: A Short Introduction - ACMS Seminar, February 2011
Parametrizations of Discrete Graphical Models - UW General Examination, December 2010
Factor Analysis and Singularities - Slides from presentation for STAT 591, October 2009
Book Review
Lectures on Algebraic Statistics, by Drton, Sturmfels and Sullivant.
SIAM Review, 2011, vol. 53 (1) pp 189-190